Improvement in scoops



W, .T. GRIFFITHS. SCOOP.

No. 192,987, Patented J'u1y 10.,1877.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

WILLIAM J. GRIFFITHS, OF BROOKLYN, NEW YORK.

IMPROVEMENT IN scoo s.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 192,9Q7, dated July 10,1877; application filed February 14, 1877.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, WILLIAM JOHN GRIF- FITHS,of Brooklyn, in the county of Kings at its front end of malleable ironor steel,

which forms a continuation of the scoop, and serves to protect it fromwear, as hereinafter more fully specified.

In the drawing, the letter A presents a sheet-metal scoop, the body ofwhich is corrugated. The said body is made in the form of a cylinder,corrugated throughout, and cut off in front in an oblique direction, andprovided at its rear end with a hemispherical head, a, towhich issecured the handle 12. The corrugations maybe terminated inside of saidbody at some distance from its back end, the object of said corrugationsbeing to increase the strength of the body, and particularly that of itsfront edge, so that when my scoop is used, for instance, for the purposeof taking lump-sugar out of a barrel, its front edge; in being pushedinto the sugar, is less liable to curl up than it is if left plain. Atthe same time, if the corrugations extend throughout the cylindricalportion of the body of the scoop in a longitudinal direction, as

shown in the drawing, an article of superior strength and durability isobtained.

()n the corrugated front edge of my scoop I have secured a shoe, B, ofmalleable iron, steel, or other firm and hard material. This shoe isprovided with a sharp edge, so that it penetrates the material to bescooped up with ease and facility, and that the durability of my scoopis materially increased. Said shoe may be cast or produced in any otherdesirable manner, and it is secured to the body of the scoop either bysoldering or by any other suitable means. l

' What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

I. In combination with the handle and hemispherical head of asheet-metal scoop, the cylindrical body A, made from a single piece ofsheet metal, corrugated throughout its longitudinal and cylindricalsurface, as and for the purpose herein shown and described.

2. A sheet-metal scoop having a cylindrical part made from a singlepiece of metal corrugated throughout its longitudinal and cylin dricalsurface, said cylindrical corrugated scoop-body being cut 011' in frontin an oblique direction, shod on its edge with an iron or steel strip,and provided at its rear with a hemispherical head, to which is securedthe handle, substantially as herein shown and described.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing I have hereunto set my hand andseal this 12th day of February, 1877.

WILLIAM JOHN GRIFFITHS. [L. s.] Witnesses:

W. HAUFF,

E. F. KASTENHUBER.

